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Bottle jar. Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-brown under a crazed grey/green glaze. The truncated body with flattened shoulders, tapers towards the slightly recessed, flat base. The neck is missing and has been replaced with a European stoneware neck. The glaze and slip stop short of the base. The body is decorated in brown with two large, lobed, lozenge-shape reserves each containing a single robed figure, one seated on a rug and one standing holding a branch. Spiral motifs decorate the spandrels. The shoulders are decorated with four panels containing flower heads interspersed with a flower head on a cross-hatched ground.
History note: Possibly purchased from Dorn, June 1921, for £6.0s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 17.4 cm
Height: 24.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century
Circa
1500
-
1600
Glaze
composed of
glaze
( crazed grey/green glaze)
Decoration
composed of
slip
( white)
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown and turned, white slip, painted in iron-brown under a crazed grey/green glaze
Turning
Inscription present: white, round label, with serrated edge
Accession number: C.624-1991
Primary reference Number: 21096
Old object number: CHICER/848
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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